'Stonechat' definitions:
Definition of 'stonechat'
From: WordNet
noun
Common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast [syn: stonechat, Saxicola torquata]
Definition of 'Stonechat'
From: GCIDE
- Stonechat \Stone"chat`\, n. [Stone + chat.] [So called from the similarity of its alarm note to the clicking together of two pebbles.] (Zool.) (a) A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith. (b) The wheatear. (c) The blue titmouse. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The name is sometimes applied to various species of Saxicola, Pratincola, and allied genera; as, the pied stonechat of India (Saxicola picata). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'stonechat'
From: GCIDE
- Wheatear \Wheat"ear`\, n. (Zool.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola [oe]nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'stonechat'
From: GCIDE
- Chat \Chat\, n.
- 1. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip. [1913 Webster]
- Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (Icteria viridis), and the long-tailed chat (Icteria longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolid[ae], as the stonechat, and whinchat. [1913 Webster]
- Bush chat. (Zool.) See under Bush. [1913 Webster]